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3,...2,...1...We are LIVE! WVS-7 New Data Release is available for downloading now! The World Values Survey Association announces the first release of the latest World Values Survey dataset (WVS-7, V1.0). Fieldwork for this 7th wave was conducted from mid-2017 to early-2020. This includes 77 countries and societies on all inhabited continents around the globe, ranging from Albania, Australia and Argentina to the United States, Vietnam and Zimbabwe, as well as surveys conducted in collaboration with the European Values Study. In total, over 129,000 respondents were interviewed so far for this wave.

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WVSA Annual Meeting 2020 Similiar to many other organizations and projects worldwide, in 2020 the WVS Association transformed the annual meeting of its Governing Board into into an online conference. The WVSA's governing board held its annual meeting in electronic format on May 6. A number of important issues has been discussed, including WVS-7 survey fieldwork schedule and response to the delays in survey completion caused by COVID-19; WVS-7 data release; WVSA General Assembly in 2021; improvements into the WVS-7 data cleaning procedures and survey wave deliverables; first plans for the WVS-8 survey round.

Call for papers: Changing values in a changing world? Italy in the European Values Study and World Values Survey (2018) Call for papers for a special issue "Changing values in a changing world? Italy in the European Values Study and World Values Survey (2018)" of “Quaderni di Sociologia” journal. Abstracts due June 30, 2020.

Values in a Crisis Survey: Invitation for Participation An international team of scholars under the leadership of the WVSA Vice-President Prof. Dr. Christian Welzel (Leuphana University Luneburg) is organizing a 3-wave "Values in Crisis" survey. The survey aims to study people' values now during the corona-pandemic (wave 1), shortly after the pandemic ceases (wave 2) and in approximately 1 year from now (wave 3). Self-administered 20-minutes online questionnaire is the main instrument. The survey will take place in Germany and the UK, and the team is looking for academic groups and public opinion research institutes who might be interested to expanding the study to their countries.

ONE POSTDOC SCHOLARSHIP Leuphana University of Lüneburg offers one Postdoc Scholarship at the Chair for Political Culture Research with a thematic focus on “comparative public opinion, political psychology and/or political behavior” at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, starting June 1st 2020. Application deadline: 30th of April 2020.

Remembering Björn Buß The World Values Survey Association's Secretariat is deeply saddened about the recent tragic loss in our team. The WVS mourns the unexpected passing of our Media and Communications Officer Björn Buß (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg) on 01.02.2020.

WVSA coordination team at the WVS7 survey training in Uzbekistan Last week a WVSA delegation gave public lectures at the Institute for Research of the Youth Problems and Training Prospective Personnel at the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan in Tashkent. Training has been conducted for the new research team in Uzbekistan to conduct the WVS-7 survey round in Fall 2019.

WVSA delegation at the OSCE Conference in Central Asia Last week WVSA President Christian Haerpfer and Head of WVSA Secretariat Kseniya Kizilova served as invited key-note speakers at the Academic Conference on "System Transformation in CentralAsia and in Comparative Perspective".

FROM THE AUTHORITARIAN PERSONALITY TO THE AUTHORITARIAN REFLEX: Talk by Ron Inglehart (full text) at the WAPOR-2019 conference in Toronto, Canada Talk by Ronald Inglehart, Founding President (1981-2013) of the World Values Survey Association, at the WVS featured panel at WAPOR-2019 conference

2019 Global Report by the SDG 16 Data Initiative The Global Report provides governments, UN officials, and civil society stakeholders with a resource to help understand progress on SDG16 targets. It also provides an evidence base for identifying gaps in both the implementation and monitoring of SDG16, and for altering course to accelerate implementation where needed.

WVSA Round Table: Democracy and Democratic Values (videos from the event) At the 2019 WAPOR conference in Toronto, Canada the World Values Survey Association held a round table on "Democracy and Democratic Values: Dynamics, Measurement, Forecasting". Round table was moderated by the WVSA President Christian Haerpfer, WAPOR President Marita Carballo, Alejandro Moreno Álvarez with Ronald Inglehart, Pippa Norris, Christian Welzel, Sir Robert Worcester, Marta Lagos and Henrique Carlos de Castro being invited as speakers.

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PRESIDENT

Christian Haerpfer

c.w.haerpfer@gmail.com

WVSA President

University of Vienna

Institute of Political Science

Vienna 1010, Austria

SECRETARIAT
(WVSA Headquarters)

Kseniya Kizilova

wvsa.secretariat@gmail.com

Head of WVSA Secretariat

Institute for Comparative

Survey Research

Vienna 1040, Austria

LEGAL SEAT

Bi Puranen

bi.puranen@worldvaluessurvey.org

Secretary-General

Institute for Future Studies

Stockholm, Sweden 101 31

DATA ARCHIVE

Jaime Diez-Medrano

jdiezmed@jdsurvey.net

Director of the WVSA Archive

Pza Manuel Rodrigo 1, B-1E

Madrid, Spain 28043

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